Brentwood Yoga Center

Sandy Carmellini:

Founder/Creator

Sandy is a graduate from the Advanced Studies Teacher Program at the Yoga Room in Berkeley (a three-year training program with over 1000 hours of training) and a RYT (registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance.  She has been teaching yoga since 1998.  She has held many yoga retreats and workshops in California, Hawaii, Sedona, Mexico and Italy!  Her 18 years of experience as a corporate facilitator adds to her passion for training and educating others.  Sandy’s background in dance enhances her teaching style where she sequences movement and breath while focusing on detail.  Her instruction is accepting and fun and very educational.  Classes are taught primarily in the Iyengar method which focuses on creating healthy movement and balance in the body by using props (if necessary) to allow comfort and stability in poses. 

Lisa Andrews: 

Lisa is a certified Yoga, Pilates and AFAA instructor.  She has been teaching for over twelve years and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the studio.  She has an accepting approach and teaches a beautiful style of yoga. 

Andrew Allen:

Andrew is a graduate from the Integral Kriya Yoga Instructor Program (250 hours).  He has been practicing yoga for 25 years.  He is a member of the Self Realization Fellowship of Paramahansa Yogananda.  He has also studied with Swami Hariharananda, Swami Veda Bharati, and Mata Amritanandamayi.  Andrew is a professional body worker, Aikido practitioner and studies TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine).  He teaches the Meditative Movement Class on Friday afternoon.

Maria Allen:

Maria is a graduate from the Integral Kriya Yoga Instructor Program (250 hours).  She has been studying yoga since 2000 and teaching yoga to kids during P.E.  She is a local elementary school teacher in Brentwood.  Maria also attended teacher training at the Esalen Institute.  Maria enjoys integrating yoga in everything she does.  She teaches the "kidz" class on Wednesday and Family Yoga once a month.

DeNa Munoz

 DeNa's yoga journey began in 1997, when she explored the teachings Erich Schiffman. It was the practice of yoga that brought her deep peace and a calm mind but also tapped into hidden energy, and opened her heart. She attended Yoga Loka Teacher Training in Novato, Ca in 2002 with the MacCauley Family, teachers of Pattabhi Jois' Ashtanga Vinyasa. In 2006 she began training at the Mount Madonna Center under the tutelage of Baba Hari Dass. She Currently holds over 500hrs training. Her classes celebrate breath in asana with a lot of fun play! DeNa says, "Freedom in movement is limitless in the breath." When DeNa is not teaching, she spends her time running, cycling, hiking and snowball eating in the east bay hills her dog, "Kota-son."

Rod Ciocho

We teach a variety of styles of yoga,

however, most classes will be taught in the Iyengar style which focuses on discovering proper alignment and balance in the body.  We use yoga props such as blankets, blocks, bolsters, chairs, etc. in order to make poses comfortable and safe for all bodies.  We wish to create health, endurance, agility and strength in the body.  We believe creating this symmetry will reduce fatigue, soothe the nervous system and ease chronic pain.  The various work done at our studio will stimulate your digestive, circulatory, respiratory and lymphatic systems.